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past tense of toss
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1
to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions
- the boat tossed to and fro in the heavy seas
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2
to make jerky or restless movements
- tossed and turned in bed all night, unable to sleep in the heat
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3
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm
- toss that football over here
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4
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- we need to go through the basement and toss whatever we don't use
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- cashiered,
- cast (off),
- chucked,
- deep-sixed,
- discarded,
- ditched,
- dumped,
- eighty-sixed
- (or 86'd),
- exorcised
- (also exorcized),
- flung (off or away),
- jettisoned,
- junked,
- laid by,
- lost,
- pitched,
- rejected,
- scrapped,
- shed,
- shucked (off),
- sloughed (off)
- also sluffed (off),
- threw away,
- threw out,
- unloaded
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